Rev. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "Theory Of Stupidity", Developed During Adolf Hitler's Rise To Power
The following animation about anti-fascist, anti-Nazi Deitrich Bonhoeffer (a German Lutheran pastor in Hitler's Germany) --- and the thorny problem of "stupidity" as opposed to the more easily managed problem of "malice" --- is SUPERB.
Why The Bible Belt Is Not Only Lawless, But Bloodthirsty
Not unlike "cutting off one's nose to spite one's face."
Here's where American conservatives ran off the rails.
"There are two ways of lying, as there are two ways of deceiving customers. If the scale registers 15 ounces, you can say: 'It's a pound.' Your lie will remain relative to an invariable measure of the true. If customers check it, they can see that they are being robbed, and you know by how much you are robbing them: a truth remains as a judge between you. But if the demon induces you to tamper with the scale itself, it is the criterion of the true which is denatured, there is no longer any possible control. And little by little you will forget that you are cheating."
Denis de Rougemont
"Here Is Where Contemporary 'Conservatism' Ran Off The Rails: America's Cultural Crisis Distills To The Ascertainment Of Social, Political And Historical Truth. The Linchpin Question Is This... Will Absolutism/Authoritarianism Rule Our Epistemological Mindscape? Or Will Intellectual Rigor And Multifaceted Contextualization Prevail?"
https://newsfrombarbaria.
https://newsfrombarbaria.
Earlier Today, I Heard A Trump Supporter Say: "You Don't Know What To Believe." Once Trump Gets You To Throw Up Your Hands, You Won't Be Able To Determine What's True. Instead, You'll Be More Willing To Accept Lies As Truth. This Is Why Trump Lies So Much And Says "Who Knows? We'll See" So Often. Hannah Arendt Has The Details
How Trump Trashes The Underpinnings Of Truth-And-Faith-In-Shared-
"The New (Ab)Normal: Flood Every Media Platform With A Fire Hose Of Falsehood... And The Need For A New Journalistic Method"
Journalists Should Be In "Emergency" Mode: Journalistic Method Needs To Be Redefined To Deal With Trump's Re-Definition Of Bullshit As Normalcy
"On The Media"
https://www.wnycstudios.org/
https://www.wnycstudios.org/
Pat Buchanan, The Republican Presidential Candidate And Living American Who Has Served Longest As Senior White House Official, Says Republicans Are In It For "Power Only" And "To Hell With Principles"
"Daniel Webster Prompts A Review Of Conspiracism And Its Destructive Role In American Politics"
"Whom The Gods Would Destroy, They First Make Mad"
"Truth Infuriates People Whose Lives Are Lie"
https://newsfrombarbaria.
"How Conservatives Use Decontextualized Shards Of Truth To Tell BIG Lies"
https://newsfrombarbaria.
"Donald Trump's Identity Revealed"
"Trump Is A Traitor By Virtue Of Normalizing Falsehood And Teaching Americans To Do The Same"
"Compendium: Trump And His Minions Lie-And-Mislead More Easily Than They Metabolize, With A Special Guest Appearance By Master Bull-Shitter, Kayleigh McEnany"
Kayleigh McEnany Has Made A Mockery Of Her Promise Not To Lie
(Her White House Press Briefings Are Parodies Of Dystopian Governance)
Kayleigh McEnany's Lies About Alleged Voter Fraud Reveal The Sludge Sucking Nature Of The Beast
Fox News Cuts Away From Kayleigh McEnany's Baseless Claims Of Voter Fraud
The Perfect Photo To Epitomize The Horror Of Trump: Not Only Does He Inflame The Worst Angels Of Our Nature, HeTeaches His Followers That It's Okay -- Indeed, Virtuous - To Laugh At Murderous Cruelty
Unless Truth Is Richly Contextualized, It Is Likely That Uneducated, Ideologically-Driven People (Who Never Learned How To Think In Context), Will Use Fragmented Shards Of Truths To Tell Colossal Lies
How Conservatives Use Decontextualized Shards Of Truth To Tell BIG Lies
Trump Lies Shamelessly, Compulsively, Continuously... And His Followers Suck The Sludge
"It Has Come To This. How Do We Tell The Truth To 40% Of Americans?"
Compendium of "Pax-Barbaria" Stupidity Posts
"Nothing Makes Us Stupider Than Anger"
"Stupid People Are Too Stupid To Know They're Stupid"... And That's Just The Beginning
"When The Electorate Is THIS Stupid, Is ANY Delusional Thinking Out Of Bounds?"
https://newsfrombarbaria.
https://newsfrombarbaria.
"Pardon Him, Theodotus; He Is A Barbarian And Thinks That The Customs Of His Tribe And Island Are The Laws Of Nature." George Bernard Shaw On The Nature Of Personal Stupidity And Social Stupefaction
"The Decisive Distinction Between People Who Can Think And Those Who Can't"
Can We Talk? "Most Stupid People Are Conservative"
"A Confession: I'm Starting To Write Off Stupid People As Incorrigible"
It Has Come To This: How Do Intelligent Citizens Deal With The Irredeemably Stupid, Ignorant And Self-Pithed People Who Have Taken Over? The Invasion Of The Body Snatchers Is Now Reality
https://paxonbothhouses.
https://paxonbothhouses.
Trump Is "Just" A Spearhead And A Symptom: Basically, Stupid People Have Taken Over
https://paxonbothhouses.
Education Or Catastrophe (With Special Emphasis On The Teaching Of History)
Compendium Of Best "Pax" Posts On The Cornerstone Necessity Of Education
John F. Kennedy, Education And The End Of War
Two Full Years Of American History Taught Dialectically Is The Swiftest, Surest Path To Restoration Of Social And Political Health In The American Body Politic
https://newsfrombarbaria.
https://newsfrombarbaria.
"The Rotting Of The Republican Mind"
David Brooks
Trump Comments On Voter Fraud: People Can Only Be This Stupid When Their Identity Depends On Being Stupid
"When The Electorate Is THIS Stupid, Is ANY Delusional Thinking Out Of Bounds?"
The Insuperable Stupidity-Perversity-Ignorance Of Diehard Trump Supporters
Compendium Of Trump Videos That Reveal His Arrogance, Inhumanity, Stupidity And Cruelty
"If Trump Voters Listened To Reason, They Wouldn't Be Trump Voters"
"The Hard, Central Truth Of Contemporary Conservatism"
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